Annotated Unix Magic Poster

I think the spool with usr written on it most likely refers to the /usr/spool directory, where user mailboxes (and I think print jobs) were traditionally kept.

There are two more paintings in this series: Unix Views and Unix Feuds. High quality scans of all three are available on the internet archive.

Somehow I had never heard of&#x2F;seen this before. It looks like a prog rock album cover or something.<p>Some old commands in there I haven&#x27;t used in a long time (poke, uucp), or never used - I think the troff I know is actually the one in GWBASIC (tracing off).

I would happily pay for a high quality print, but no idea where to get one from.

#39 skull (dev&#x2F;null) or daemon<p>To me it looks like monkey face or like a cats face, a lynx? There is a tap &#x2F; spigot above but I don&#x27;t think tap wasn&#x27;t much of a unix thing back then?<p>edits:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;drio&#x2F;unixmagic&#x2F;issues&#x2F;13">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;drio&#x2F;unixmagic&#x2F;issues&#x2F;13</a><p>&gt; the top of head has an old time faucet handle and this might be referencing IO redirection (streams) as well as the stream of molten lava&#x2F;magic brew.

#28, pwd, looks like a play on words with &quot;powder&quot; that you would put in a box.

How about annotating the word &quot;magic&quot;? Of course there&#x27;s &#x2F;etc&#x2F;magic that&#x27;s used by the `file` command. By the way it identifies itself, doing `file &#x2F;etc&#x2F;magic` works.

This is amazing. Does anyone know how to get a physical copy?

The #38 is controversial as noted. To me it represents the branching of Unix flavors, mostly derived from the AT&amp;T and BSD versions (represented by the glasses.)

When i see the brick wall i think of the -Wall option in gcc.